One of the greatest modern scandals in Italy concerns the death of Roberto Calvi, chairman of Banco Ambrosiano, whose body was found hanging from London’s Blackfriars Bridge in 1982. In the preceding years Calvi had been the target of a major investigation into embezzlement and illegal money transfers. He was even known as God’s Banker because of his heavy involvement with the Vatican’s finances. But he also had darker connections: to the Mafia and, the weirdest player in the fold, the clandestine Freemason group Propaganda Due, or P2. P2 constituted a kind of shadow government composed of highly ambitious, well-connected Italians (including future prime minister Silvio Berlusconi) and had associates in every Italian secret service agency. In 1981, when police raided the P2 offices looking for links to terrorism, they uncovered the evidence needed to propel an investigation into Calvi, himself a P2 member. No one knows who hanged the Masonic banker from the Blackfriars Bridge. The Catholic Church, the Mafia and P2 all had strong motives. Interestingly, though, P2 Freemasons once called themselves frati neri, or “black friars.”